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June 2025 is Homeworlds month! Looney Labs is hosting virtual classes for new players, a group gaming session, and a Q and A with the inventors John Cooper and Andy Looney. Details on BGG: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/352406 ... e/46182398

There's a Discord server for Homeworlds! Come talk strategy, schedule with real-time opponents, and get community announcements!
https://discord.gg/tZCpPXC

As far as I know, skipping restarts in the BGA replay will require overhauling the client-server interaction so that restarts are never even shown to the opponent. It's possible, and I have it in mind as a long-term goal, but it will be quite a lot of work. In the meantime, you can copy BGA logs int...

I'm not working on it actively, but it's on my mind to implement multiplayer once I get through some life stuff.

I'll play it safe and do it by hand. It'll take a while, but I'm pretty obsessed.

I've got a Terms of Service question. For studying gameplay, I would like to collect the logs from tables of my favorite game (about 5000 logs). I could do this in a my spare time in a month or so, but it would be easier to run a crawler. I have read the that the replay pages are resource intensive ...

I'm enjoying it too, though life holds me back from playing as much as I'd like.

"Interaction" appears to be a bad translation. In the code, "interaction" is called "diplomacy." Games that have no cooperative or negotiation aspect all have 0 "interaction." Games that are heavy on cooperation, deals, and trading all have high "interact...

I (and presumably everyone who has tried to deploy recently) encountered the problem that the version numbers being assigned to new deployments are too large for the 32-bit INTs being used to store them in the "global" table. From my observation, the result is that any new deployment preve...